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The impression prevails that a majority
of the House of Representatives are op
posed to a restoration of the franking
privilege.
Arthur is regarded as possessing a
great advantage over Conkling because
of his ability to carry on a political con
test with a man without regarding that
man as a personal enemy.
It is being commented on as a signifi
cant fact that Senator Teller voted to
pass the anti Chinese bill over the Presi
dent’s veto the day before his name was
sent in as a member of the Cabinet.
We are glad to see that since the star
route prosecutions have been placed in
the hands of Mr. Merrick and other
Democrats they are in a fair way to be
heard. The recent decisions of Judge
Wiley are also regarded as pretty cer
tain proof that he intends to allow no
friyilous pleas or objections to stand in
the way of a speedy trial.
The idea of electing Congressmen-at
large seems to be growing popular. The
indications now are that the Ohio Legisla
ture will pass no bill to redistrict that
State, but will allow the people generally
to decide upon the political complexion
of the extra Representative to which
the mother of modern Presidents is enti
tled under the late census.
The Macon Telegraph hopes that as
the season advances our enterprising
Railroad Commission will hasten to fix
the rates on the transportation of plums
and black!*rri s. It hopes also that the
Commission will make a just discrimina
tion between the dewberry and the black
berry. This is a delicate question, but
doubtless it can be fully grasped by the
powerful mind of our Railway Commis
sion.
The cniiet and determined way in
which President Arthur has lottified
himself with a stalwart Cabinet, and has
strengthened the position of his faction
of the Republican party, speaks well for
him as a political strategist Neverthe
less it will not make the conservative
faction any the less determined to wage
relentless warfare with him, and if the
Democrats are careful they can success
fully throw themselves into the breach
and whip out both parties in detail.
Henry Mandslev, the great English
authority on the mind and its diseases,
says that insanity is the almost inevitable
result of exclusive devotion to money
getting. It may not show itself in the
first generation, but it is almost sure to
break out in the second. The suicide of
the son and namesake of Cornelius \ an
derbilt is probably a very fair illustra
tion of this assertion. He was never of
entirely sound mind, and his self-de
struction was only the end of a diseased
and disordered mental career.
Won’t our Northern Radical contem
poraries please be kind enough to let up
on their disgusting twaddle about “Bour
bon trickery in South Carolina? ’ Messrs.
Chamberlain, Moses, Patterson et. al.,
have given the country ample and con
clusive evidence that all the trickery
which has ever been committed in that
State since the formation of the Union
was not comparable to that of its Re
publican despotlers when they were in
power. Besides this, the long record of
Radical frauds in the country, from the
year 1860 to the present day, including
the stealing of the Presidency for Hayes,
ought to impress the Republicans with
the truth of the adage that those who live
in glass houses should never throw stones.
Since the recent Republican reverses in
the West, Assistant Postmaster General
Hatton has written to the Postmasters at
New York and Cincinnati not only re
voking Hayes’ order prohibitory of
party campaign work by Federal officials,
but overruling the regulation established
under Grant that government employes
are not to hold municipal offices. He
says that post office employes may accept
municipal offices which do not interfere
with their duties to the department and
should be permitted to work actively for
the good of the party. In obedience to
these instructions Postmaster Pearson, of
New York, says in relation to Assistant
Postmaster General Hatton’s letter that
he proposes simply to see that every
employe performs thoroughly the duties
assigned him without inquiring how he
employs his time afterward.
On Tuesday morning last Mrs. Ida
Greeley Smith, the eldest daughter of
Horace Greeley, died of diphtheria at
Chappaqua, New York State. She
leaves three children, the youngest an in
fant four weeks old. She married Col.
Nicholas Smith, of Kentucky, on May
I, 1875, and after making a European
tour settled at her father’s celebrated
farm at Chappaqua, where they have
since lived. Sirs. Smith leaves a son
five years of age, who was named after
his distinguished grandfather, and who
is now called Horace Greeley, his parents
having agreed to drop his last name.
Mrs. Smith was a woman of much in
tellectual ability, great force of character
and many accomplishments. She was
devoted in her care of her younger sister
Gabrielle, who is now the only survivor
of a former notable household.
Discussing the late suicide of Cornelius
J. Vanderbilt, an exchange says it recalls
a mass of public scandals, which for a
long time the Vanderbilt family have
been trying to live down with exemplary
pertinacity. He was the particularly off
sheep of a by no means white fleeced
flock. He was left in the old Commo
dore's will the interest on the sum of
two hundred thousand dollars, which,
considering the debts he had managed to
accumulate, was hardly doing the hand
some thing by him. Then came the
grand family squabble among the chil
dren of the deceased “Representative
American,” and proceedings were insti
tuted to break the will. It was a fight
in which shreds of the Commodore's
reputation physically, mentally and mor
ally were submitted to & microscopic ex
amination, in which every dirty stain and
blotch was placed before the eyes of the
publie in all the hideousness of realistic
description of a disreputable life. But
the will was sustained, though there
were preparations for an appeal. From
this contest Cornelius J. stood aloof.
He had an object—a claim that William
H., the principal heir under the will,
had promised him $1,000,000 for his for
bearance. As William H. did not re
member this promise, Cornelius J. went
to law on his own account But con
venient friends of the family interferred,
and a settlement was effected in May,
1879, with all the warring branches of
the family by which Cornelius J. receiv
ed a handsome income from a sum
placed in the hands of a trustee. He
had won bis money, but it came too
late to benefit him. Epileptic fits left
but little of what was originally a mind
Qf the lowest grade.
Mr Hewitt’s Tariff Measure.
In the debate on the tariff commission
bill in the House on Wednesday, Mr.
Upson, of Texas, made a good point
against the views of Mr. Hewitt, of New
York, on the subject of tariff reform.
Mr. Hewitt, it will be remembered, de
sires that all raw material for manufac
turing purposes shall be placed on the
free list, while the present high duties
on manufactured articles shall be
maintained. Thi9 doctrine, as Mr. Up
son says, will not meet with the approval
of the Democratic party or of the coun
try at large, for it is by no means advan
tageous to the farmer class, who are
the principal sufferers through the
operations of a high protective tariff. It
would not lessen in any respect the extor
tionate taxation to which the farmers —
and, in fact, all other non protected con
sumers and purchasers —are at present
subjected in the purchase of clothing,
blankets and many other of the manu
factured necessaries of life, while, in
other respects, it would work to their
serious detriment. For instance, many
of our farmers are engaged in sheep
raising, and wool, of course, is one
of their staple products. To place
wool upon the free list, therefore,
and, at the same time to allow the
present high tariff to stand upon woolen
blankets and cloths, would injure the
wool producer in every way. It would
force him to greater competition than
ever with the wool markets of the world,
but would not, in any appreciable degree,
relieve him from the tribute which is
at present levied upon him by protected
woolen manufacturers. This Bame
reasoning applies to various other spe
cialties in which farmers are interested
in common with the outside world, and
indeed it would apply to cotton also
were our Southern planters not so fortu
nately circumstanced by nature as to
fear no rivalry, at least at present, from
foreign competitors in the cultivation of
the great staple.
It is evident, then, that Mr. Hewitt’s
ideas are not likely to prove acceptable to
the agricultural portion of our popula
tion, mainly because they do not go far
enough. At present the farmers derive
a minimum of the good while subjected
to the maximum of the evils which arise
from the protective system, and to im
prove their condition is one of the very
greatest objects to be gained by a reform
in the tariff. Asa general rule, the
lower the tariff the better for them,
but it should be a general reduction,
as well in manufactured articles as
on the raw material, so that while the
farmer may be forced, as he is at present,
generally to compete with the world in
his productions, he may also eDjoy the
advantage of being able to purchase
what he needs for farm, personal and
household use as cheaply as possible.
We think further, that Mr. Upson
states the case aright, when he says that
what is wanted at this t me is such a re
vision of the tariff as will furnish an
ample revenue to meet the wants and
obligations of government, and, at the
same time, afford fair protection—such
as may incidentally result from a reve
nue tariff—to American labor and indus
try. This, it seems to us, would be the
fairest possible solution of the tariff
problem of which present circumstances
will admit. While so large a proportion
of the public debt yet remains unpaid,
the government must need a large reve
nue. The main reliance for this reve
nue now is from internal taxation,
and that this is unjust is evident from
the fact that the agricultural and all
other non protected classes are taxed
twice —first, to pay the protected
manufacturers, who by protection have
control of the markets for their wares,
and second to make up to the govern
men the revenue which it loses by the
large prohibition of imports through the
protective system. It is proper, there
fore, that so far as the necessaries of life
are concerned, internal taxation should
be abolished, and that the revenues of
the government should be derived from
a taxation of luxuries, such as liquors
and tobacco, and upon articles from
abroad imported upon as low a tariff as
possible.
This would be fair and just to all
classes of the country. Since there must
be a tariff for revenue, such tariff should
be adjusted to furnish incidental protec
tion to all American industries most in
need thereof. And here we may remark,
parenthetically, is where the rice and
sugar interests of the South would be
benefited, since those lands, being almost
wholly unfitted for other crops, their
protection, as far as it may be brought
about through the operations of a reve
nue tariff, would be one of the first mat
ters to be considered in a proper tariff
adjustment.
That reform of the present tariff sys
tem will be effected before the agitation
of the question is permitted to die out
there can be no question, and upon a
calm review of the whole situation, we
believe that programme herein outlined
will finally be adopted. The great end
and aim to be sought for by tariff revi
sion is to confer the greatest bene
fit upon the greatest number.
A high protective tariff oppresses
the purchaser solely for the
benefit of the manufacturer. Free trade
is a theory, which, under existing cir
cumstances, cannot possibly be put into
practice. Internal taxation is unjust
unless abs ilutely necessary, and a tariff
for revenue only, therefore, is what we
must have. That such tariff should be
adjusted to the best advantage of the
whole country is a proposition to which
all will yield a ready assent.
Tallahassee Fair.
President D. W. Gwmn, of the “Mid
dle Florida Agricultural and Mechanical
Association,” is out in an address which
makes a strong and vigorous appeal to
the citizens of Florida, m behalf of the
fair to be held in Tallahassee on the 3d
and 4th days of May, proximo. He says
the association has had its dark days
financially, but they are happily past, and
it asks no money contributions, relying
upon the eainest, intelligent personal
co-operation of the citizens for support.
Its primary object is declared to be,
not to make money, but to enhance the
industrial prosperity of Middle Florida.
To this end it offers encouragement to
the rapidly increasing truck farms
of that beautiful section, as
well as to all industrial interests through
out the State, and for the special benefit
of the farming inteiests, will exhibit and
test many of the best and latest improved
agricultural implements of the day.
General Loring, United States Com
missioner of Agriculture, is expected to
be present and address the citizens on
that occasion, and with the grand floral
exhibition Middle Florida can make
above every other section, there is no
doubt that the May fair at Tallahassee
will be one of the most enjoyable ever
held m the countiy.
The New York Tribune, after a survey
of the ground, arrives at the conclusion
that nothing but thorough organization
and vigorous united action will give the
Republicans a majority in the next
House of Representatives.
“Corners ”
The recent baneful effects of specula
tive “corners,” recently detailed and ex
plained by Messrs. Depew and Jewett,
of New York, to a committee of
the Legislature of thair State, sug
gest the sudden growth of an evil
in this country which demands
more attention than has yet been be
stowed on it. Mr. Depew as attorney
for Vanderbilt’s roads and Mr. Jewett as
President of the Erie, have had excellent
opportunities to observe the effects of
speculative combinations upon the move
ment of grain and other commodities.
They point out how the consumers are
the real sufferers. While the game is
played between rival rings of specula
tors, neither consumers nor producers
are profited. The process of “corner
ing” a commodity has been often ex
plained. It is simple, and with sufficient
means and accurate information, is cer
tain in its results. The intrinsic worth
or actual supply are subordinate factors
in fixing the price of an article. For
example : There may be two hundred
million bushels of wheat in the country
for sale. A ring will make a corner on
wheat for any month and buy, ostensi
bly for delivery to them, more than there
is—more than it is possible to deliver,
no difference what the price might be.
They advance the price and demand a
settlement at their own rates; they never
expected the wheat, the delivery of
which has now become a physical as
well as a financial impossibility. In the
meantime actual transactions in wheat,
beyond those for local consumption, are
retarded or entirely suspended because
the price is not reasonable, not based on
the real value or known supply of grain.
Consumers the while must eat and
supply themselves at fictitious prices,
the excess above the true value going to
the speculators.
Commenting on the remarks of Messrs.
Depew and Jewett, and on the danger
ous prevalence of “corners,” the St.
Louis Republican eays forcibly and well:
“This unfortunate character of specu
lation is the outgrowth of the present
mode of handling grain and products; of
the accumulation in the hands of indi
viduals of vast sums of money and illim
itable credit, which may be transmitted
from point to point or across the con
tinent in a moment, and of the approxi
mately accurate knowledge of the visible
supply of any commodity within the
range of possible delivery at any agreed
point at a fixed time.
“The remedy for this great and grow
ing evil is not obvious, even to those
who have most carefully studied the sub
ject. The methods and forms of those
who make corners—and are nothing, in
truth, but gigantic gamblers —are pre
cisely those of legitimate operators. The
difficulty of reaching them through re
strictive legislation is apparent. No
effective means has yet been devised
without limiting and destroying legiti
mate commerce, which would be to sup
plant one evil with another. Neverthe
less, something will have to be done.
Capital in railroads and in water carriage,
based upon the known demands of pro
duction, and the right of consumers to
be secure in their daily supplies at their
true value, will force the effective appli
cation of some remedy. The reckless
greed of gamblers will not be permitted
always to paralyze industry :i*i inflict
great and needless hardships on the great
body of meritorious consumers.”
’I he Cold Snap.
The damage to the fruit crop reported
yesterday in our dispatches as having oc
curred from the recent cold snap in Vir
ginia. Kentucky and westward to Michi
gan,did not extend to this section,so far as
our information goes to this date, though
the weather has been cold and unseason
able for several days. Fortunately, clouds
and drizzling rain came with the blasts
of old Boreas, and although in some lo
calities, as in Lowndes, Brooks and
Thomas counties, in the southwestern
portion of the State, heavy rains, accom
panied by severe bail, did some damage
to the young fruit, there has, so far,
been no frost to wipe out in a night the
toil and industry of weeks.
Our city dealers in foreign and domes
tic fruits have no information up to this
date of damage by the cold, or other
cause, to the fruit and truck farms of
this immediate vicinity, and as the
cloudy, drizzly weather has protected
them thus far, we may reasonably hope
for escape through the gentle modifica
tion of the weather which invariably
occurs in this climate after three or four
cold days at this season. It is likely that
much more damage has occurred in the
North and West than has yet been re
ported, and our farmers and fruit grow
ers who have been fortunate enough to
escape, have an additional incentive to
putting in larger crops to supply the
probable deficiency of early fruits.
Savings hanks for employes are excel
lent features of some of the British rail
ways. That of the Caledonian Railway
contains about $300,000 of the savings of
the’ company’s servants, and that of the
North British Railway over $200,000,
making more than half a million dollars
belonging to the employes of the two
companies only, which is earning 4 per
cent, interest, or at least 1 per cent, more
than the ordinary rate. The Railway
Age thinks that it is safe to say
that these great accumulations were
made without any appreciable ef
fort or sacrifice on the part of
the depositors. The discontinuance of
the glass of beer or the cigar will make
a wonderful difference in a man’s finan
cial condition after a while, if the money
thus saved is put at work in the bank.
Moreover, the man with money laid up
works with far more spirit and hope
than he who lives from hand to mouth,
spending everything as he goes. Our
railway managers would do a great
thing for the service if they would estab
lish a savings bank system, and get their
men into the habit of making regular
use of its opportunities.
It is estimated that the entire city debt
of New Y’ork, which on the Ist of Janu
ary amounted to $98,290,206 net, can be
extinguished from the sinking fund in
twenty years without recourse to taxa
tion. The contingency of a very proba
ble increase in the present indebtedness
is not, however, taken account of in this
calculation.
Petitions from the Philadelphia Board
of Trade and other commercial centres
of the Union against the new bankrupt
bill, are going into Congress m force.
They are all in favor of the “Lowell
bill,” of which we recently published a
synopsis.
Mr. John Dull was married to Miss
Emma Work in Philadelphia the other
day, and the Public Ledger heads the
advertisement “Dull—Work.”
A Washington paper says It is understood
“that the Secretary of War has recommended
a mitigation of the sentence of Sergeant
Mason to four or five months' imprisonment
in the guard house, forfeiture of all pay
and dishonorable dismissal from the service.
The President will give the case attention
in case the writ of habeas corpus shall be
refused by the Supreme Court.
GENERAL NOTES.
On the lowest computation 550.000 tons of
fish are annually taken in British waters,
and Prof Huxley estimates the tke of her
rings in the North Sea at 3,000,000 000
A letter carrier in Meriden, Connecticut,
whose wife has inherited sixty thousand dol
lars, still roes his rounds, although the Post
master has several applicants for his p’ace.
The Newmarket (Va.) Shenandoah Valley
reports that that section was visited by sev
eral earthquake shocks on Sunday evening,
21 inst., the direction of the movement
beine northeast and southwest. Some of
he houses were perceptibly shaken.
Bome think that Secretary Folger will be
a Presidential rival of Arthur’s in 1874 The
Louisville Courier-Journal thinks that as
both gentlemen wear the same style of side
whiskers, the convention will have its hands
full in making a selection.
The Tichborne claimant is sawing wood
and unloading timber in the dock yard at
Portsmouth. He weighs about sixteen
stone, as against twenty-five when he was
first sentenced, but is in good health, and
thrives on a prison ration a quarter larger
than that allotted to the other prisoners.
The first step toward “Russianizing”
Russia has been taken by altering the pres
ent uniform of the army to the ancient Rus
sian costume, which consists of a sheepskin
cap, a loose coat without, buttons, and baggy
trousers gathered Into high hoots. Promo
tion, too, is now .denied to all officers of
German descent.
General Vulllemot, the new chief of staff
at the French war office, "when a school
boy while carelessly playing with a pistol in
the room of a professor named Debette,
accidentally discharged the weapon and
wounded the professor’s little daughter in
the side, a tnlshan for which later in Ilfs he
made atonement by marrying her.
The members of the Boston Photographic
Association are trying to come to a uniform
rule about the number of sittings to give
without extra charge in cases where the dis
satisfaction does not srise from any fault of
the photographer. They do rot seem likely
to agree, however, as some favor the utmost
indulgence, while others wish to make peo
ple pay for every additional sitting.
It is said that the busines of a number of
small New Eogland firms, depending on 25
and 50 cent orders, was ruined at the time of
the withdrawal of fractional currency from
circulation, their customers not being willing
to take the trouble to buy postage stamps
for remitting such small amounts by mail.
All that is needed for anew issue, to meet
many demands of convenience, is an appro
priation by Congress.
Mehemet Rushdi Pasha, who is dead at his
country seat in Bmyrna, was one of those
Turkish statesmen who took part in the
dethronement of Abdul Aziz, but owing to
his great age and the critical state of his
health at the time of the tria', he could not
be taken to Constantinople for trial. He was
born of humble parents, and rose through
hard labor to the highest station. Several
times he was Grand Viz'er.
The city of Philadelphia has in its twenty
one large hospitals two thousand five hun
dred and forty nine beds, and at present,
fortunately, not enough patients by seven
hundred and thirty-nine to occupy them.
This lack of sufferers somewhat disturbs
the equanimiiy of the philanthropists who
conduct these harbors for the sick and
maimefl, and somewhat of a rivalry has
sprung up among them in the scramble for
patients.
The Natchez (Miss.) Democrat says that a
man In that city who wished to engage fifty or
seventy five men sent an agent among the
many idle persons in town from the over
flowed districts, thinking that he would
have no difficulty in procuring the laborers
he needed. But the agent reported that he
could secure but four or five, a't.hough the
wages nt |1 50 a day were offered. The
Democrat adds: “This is but one of many in
stances we have heard of where these people
refused work when offered. They know
they will be fed anyhow.”
A writer in Land and Water says: “In the
the course of my experience in using male
elephants In Bengal I have known many
which were called by their keepers
‘khoonees’—murderers. One magnificent
animal had killed five persons when he was
placed at my disposal for the conveyance of
baggage. After a sixth murder he was shot.
Tbe parents of the children accustomed to
ride on Jumbo should shudder at the Idea
of allowing their little ones to encounter the
peril which must attend them since the ani
mal has once been ‘Must’—that Is, subject
to the madness of elephants.”
One of the most marked traits of the Chi
nese Is their worship of ancestry and obedi
ence to parents, which are in ucter contrast
with tbe American character. A “China boy”
was recently arrested for stealing a $l5O
watch from his mistress In Ban Francisco.
His excuse was that he had received a letter
from Ms father in China, ordering him to
send $55 to bring his brother from Yokoha
ma to San Francisco. As he had no money,
and regarding his father’s commands as
imperative, he felt compelled to take the
watch. He seemed to regret his arrest
chit-flv because he could not comply with
his father’s request.
A nephew of John Gibson Lockhart, the
son-in-law of Scott, and a writer of stories
which have been greatly liked in England,
is dead in Colonel Lawrence W. M. Lock
hart, who passed away last month at Men
tone. His military career began in the
Crimea and ended not long afterward In
India, when he turned to literature. As an
artisMc writer of fiction he outdid his more
famous uncle. Among his works are
“Double or Quits,” “Fair to See,” and
“Mine is Thine.” During the Franco-
Germh war he was for a time a newspaper
correspondent, and wrote for the London
Times an account of the battle of Forbach.
Miss Lumley, who was better known as
the Sister Clara, of the male accident ward
of Guv’s Hospital, in London, died three
weeks ago under distressing circumstances.
On a certain dav a man was brought into
the hospital suffering from a fall from an
omnibus. An eruption something like
small-pox appeared on his face, but he said
it was nothing; he had had the same thing a
few weeks before, and so no further atten
tion was given to it. But a day later, still
under Sister Clara’s care, he was found to
be suffering from the worst form of hemor
rhagic small-pox, and in a few hours he
died. Sister Clara, who had never known a
dsy’s illness before in her life, soon died
also.
John Vallanie, an English weaver, who
has just died at Barnsley in his eighty-eighth
year, had been concerned in many labor
demonstrations in his time. First he was
tried at York in 1820 for taking part in the
Grange Moor affair, and sentenced to death
for high treason. The sentence was after
ward commuted to fourteen years’ transpor
tation, but, owing to good behavior, he was
released on pardon after a year. Returning
to Barnsley, he took an active part In the
demonstration there in 1822, and in 1829 was
concerned In the great weavers’ strike,
though he had no hand in the acts of vio
lence committed, and always deprecated
them. During the Chartist agitation of
1838 and 1839, he was an active leader of the
movement in the north, and was called for
trial at York, but judgment was never pro
nounced upon him.
An autopsy, without parallel in American
demonstrations of comparative anatomy,
took place at the National Museum a few
days ago. A young elephant, just dead,
was s-übmitted by tbe owner of a menagerie
to the knife with a view to discover the
cause of its death. This elephant, a grow
ing African, had been named “Mungo” by
Mr. Forepaugh, its owner. It had been sick
several times, but its ailments became seri
ous, and death followed. Its carcass was
presented to the museum. The post mortem
showed that our climate had been too severe
for the African animal, and that it died of
pneumonia. The autopsy was performed in
the cement house, adjoining the museum, iu
the presence of a large number of persons.
Casts of tbe heart of the animal and some
other intestines will be reproduced in wax
and plaster of Paris. Its stuffed skin and
Its skeleton will be placed on exhibition at
the museum.
It seems to be difficult to obtain much
accurate Information respecting the deficit
in the Arkansas Treasury, reported to
amount to at least SIO,OOO, and alleged to
have occurred while the present Governor
was the B‘ate Treasurer. A letter from
Little Rock to the Chicago Journal says of
the expected report of the legislative com
mittee: “The report covers about 110 pages
of foolscap paper, and is exhaustive in de
tail as well, embracing a review of the
management of the Treasnry for the past
six years. Gov. Churchill’s bondsmen em
b.ace some of the wealthiest men in the
State, and the loss can be covered. The
bondsmen, however, show little inclination
to pay over the money, but propose to con
test the matter in the courts. It Is said
that the bondsmen of ex-Audltor Miller and
the present Auditor, Crawford, will also be
held responsiole for a portion of the loss,
the ex-Treaeurer’s sureties holding that the
Auditor should have prevented the leak In
the Treasury. Gov. Churchill’s friends say
that he did not get a cent of the money:
that the loss was owing to bad booking, and
that there are items which should go to his
credit, and which would reduce the alleged
deficit to about $15,000. The bondsmen are
also claiming that he Is entitled to these
credits, and on this point will base their re
sort to the courts. It seems probable now
that the matter will not be settled for many
years.”
“Rough on Ran.”
Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, ants,
red-bugs, skunks, chipmunks, gophers.
15c. Druggists.
grain ana groUions.
GEORGE SCHLEY,
Successor to JAS. W. SCHLEY & CO.,
Wholesale Dealer in
Hay, Grain and Provisions,
172 BAY BTREET.
Savannah. Ga., April 1, 1882.
I DESIRE to call the attention or the public
to the fact that I hive this day succeeded
the firm of J. W. BCHLEY A CO. and will
conduct the business in same line of trade, as
a wholesale dealer in Grain and Provisions, so
liciting the patronage so liberally extended to
the old firm. Respectfully,
GEORGE SCHLEY*.
WJ E have this day soid to Mr. GEO. SCHLEY
TV our good will and stock in trade, and so
licit for him a continuance of patronage from
our friends, and assure the public that from
his experience and financial facilities he is
fully prepared to supply the demand and give
satisfaction. Mr. GEO. SCHLEY* will pay all
bills and settle all accounts of J. W. SCHI.EY
& CO. J. W. SCHLEY.
WM. SCHLEY*.
HAY. CORY, OATS, BRAS,
LEMONS, ORANGES, PEANUTS,
Potatoes, Cabbages, Etc.,
Can be obtained from
P. H. WARI) & CO.,
SAVANNAH. GA.
GEORGE SCHLEY,
(Successor to J W. SCHLEY & CO.),
WHOLESALE DKAI.KR IN
Hay, Grain and Provisions,
172 BAY STREET, BAVANNAH, GA.
I CALL the attertion of my country and city
friends to my large and assorted stocks of
CORN, HAY, OATS, BRAN, BACON and
FLOUR. All orders will receive immediate
attention. Inquiries promptly answered.
Toilet roe.
15 15-pound kits ROE.
15 10-pouod kits ROE.
1 case 5-pound boxes ROE.
PICKLED SALMON in 5-
pound tins.
Charles Davis* celebrated
HAMS.
For sale by
BRANCH & COOPER.
Fnlton Market Beef.
FRESH ROASTED COFFEES.
EVAPORATED APPLES.
DRIED PEVCHE-s.
CANNED SALMON.
CANNED LOBSTER.
PINEAPPLE CHEESE.
PRESERVES in five pound pails.
For sale by
F. L. GEORGE & CO.
Bittere landeln
KARTOFFEL MEHL.
KOFCHER SAUSAGE.
KOSCHER BEEF.
KOSCHER FAT.
PEANUTS.
RAISINS.
NICHOLAS LMG & BRO.
MOLASSES. ~
CUBA MOLASSES FOR SALE BY
C. L. GILBERT It CO.
IKilUnerg.
LACE CAPS.
%
50, 50, 50, 50, 50,
VARIETIES OF
CHILDREN’S LACE CAPS!
—A.UBO—
SUN BONNETS,
DRESSES, BIBS,
Sun Bonnets,
Fashionaole Millinery.
Z6]di7rs,Worste(ls,Crev6lß
STAMPING TO ORDER.
MRS. POWER,
168 BROUGHTON STREET.
itortMur*,
Where Shall 1 Go
TO GET
GREATBARGAINS
TO
SOUTHERN
Furniture House,
HERE you will find BEDROOM BUITB
and WINDOW BHADE9, PARLOR SUITS,
MIRRORS and CHROMOS, CRADLES, CRIBS
and BABY CARRIAGES, BEDSTEADS and
MATTRESSEB, KITCHEN FURNITURE,
STOVES, HOLLOW WARE and TINWARE.
S. HERMAN,
170 Broughton Street.
gßinwintnttr.
Apollinaris
“THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS.”
British Medical ,'tumal .
“ Tonic, Restorative, and Enliv
ening." Dr. Thileuiua.
"Exhilarating, good for Loss of
Appetite."
P. Squire, Queen’s Chemist.
ANNUAL SALE, 10 MILLIONS.
Of ail Grocers, Druggists, £• Min. Wat. Dealers.
BEWABE OF IMITATIONS.
Shipping & Family Laundry
XBOLIOIT Washing, Ironing and General
Laundry work. Orders from ships or
families will receive prompt attention. Wash
ing called for and delivered in any part of the
city. Satisfaction guaranteed.
MRS. R. E. ROBBINB,
8. E. oor. of Bull A New Houston sts.. Savannah
WAGONS.
TYTE keep on hand a stock of WILSON,
VV CHILDS A GO.’B celebrated Philadelphia
Wagons, suitable for Turpentine and Planta
tion use, which we offer for sale here at Phila
delphia prices. _
PEACOCK, HUNT A CO.,
Agents for Wilson, Childs & Cos.
gyg flgqoflg, to.
B. F. Meona.
SRHSTOOL
SPECIALTIES.
IT'INE FRENCH GINGHAMS in great variety
1 25, 30 and 35 cents.
Fine MADRAS GINGHAMB. 12W and 15 cents.
Handsome BROCADED WOOL CRESS GOODS,
12t4 and 15 cents
MANHATTAN LACE BUNTINGS, 6J4c.
Imported All Wool LACE BUNTINws, 25c.
Handsome Colored All Wool SI MMER CASH
MERES, 40 inches wide, 50c.
Handsome Light Fabric Colored BENGA
LEES, 45 inches wide, 90c. and $l.
Elegant Colored I'OULAKD SILKS.
Handsome Checked INDIA SILKS and SATINS
Beau Jful COMBINATION SUITS, in fine silk
and wool fabrics.
ILLUMIN ATED Db BAIGES, in choice colors,
45 inches wide. 60 to 75 cents.
Plain All Wool De BAIGES, 40 inches wide, 50c.
Plain All Wool 1)e BAIGES at 25c.
NUN’S VEILING. Black, in very fine and me
dium qualities.
BLACK VIRGINIE CLOTH, in handsome
quality.
BLACK KHYBER CLOTH.
BLACK CASHMERES, Blue and Jet.
BLACK SATIN MERVELLIEU.
BLACK SILK SOUISENNE.
BLACK SURAH SILKS.
BLACK FOULARD BILKB, Polka Dot and
Plain.
DRESS TRIMMINGS—Gimps, Braids, Loops,
Buttons, etc.
A splendid line of
Hamburg Embroirifis,
In Swiss, Nainsook and Cambric.
BLACK BEADED LACES.
BLACK, CREAM and WHITE SPANISH
LACES
A full line of NEW LA r ES.
Children’s LISLE THREAD and SILK
HOSIERY.
Ladies' F aNCY HOSIERY—LisIe Thread and
Balbriggan.
CORSETS.
A variety of new models aftd popular shapes.
"PRINCESS OF WALES” BUSTLES, quite
new.
TABLE LINENS, NAPKINS, TOWELS,
CRASHES, etc., in superior qualities, at
exceptionally low prices.
A large stock of PARASOLB and BUN UM
BRELLAS at very low prices.
NOTICE.
WE are determined not to spare time or look
to profits, but sell our immense stock of
goods below any importation prices, that will
enable all that are seeking safe investments
for their money to take home full value for
their dollar. We will name no prices, but our
goods will speak for themselves. Our stock
consists of all the leading novelties in
Silks, Dress Goods,
WHITE GOODS, EMBROIDERIES,
LACES,
PARASOLS, Ladies’ and Children’s HATS,
FLOWERB, RIBBONS, COLLARS in
all designs, TIES,
KID GLOVES, CORSETS,
TIDIES, BED SHAMS and LACE CURTAINS
Ladies’ and Children’s UNDERWEAR, TABLE
DAM ASK and NAPKINS. A complete line of
DOMHSTICS in all qualities. American and
French GINGHAMS, Plain and Fancy LAWNS
in all shades. All orders will have special care
and attention. All we ask is a call.
JACOB COHEN
152 BROUGHTON BTREET.
ffiatctog, He.
Waltham Watches
w-
GOLD MO SILVER CASES
AN ELEGANT ASSORTMENT OF
DIAMONDS, JEWELRY
-AND
SILVERWARE,
the lowest possible prices, at
M. STERNBERG’S,
24 BARNARD STREET.
Pbm Iron Works.
We are now landing five hundred tons superior
quality of
ENGLISH Pit! lEOH
CARGO of bark Gna, of our own direct im
portation, and have also on hand several
Choice Brands of Scotch and American PIG
IKON, all of which were purchased by us from
the producers for cash. We desire to call at
tention to our unsurpassed facilities for the
manufacture of all descriptions of
IRON CASTINGS,
Sugar Mills and Pans,
ARCHITECTURAL IRON WORK OF A •
KINDS. IRON RAILING, Etc , Etc.
WM. KEHOE & CO..
SAVANNAH. CA.
Jtoas.
FRESH GARDEN SEEDS
A *BEANsf*°CUC^JMBERB? M
EGG PLANTS, NUTMEG MELONS, CORN,
PURE RATTLESNAKE WATERMELONS,
etc., etc. Parties purchasing in large quanti
ties will be offered special inducements.
J. GARDNER, Agent,
30V6 Bull street.
genuine rattlesnake
WATEKMELLON SEED.
Grown especially for us from purest and
choicest stock. At wholesale.
G. M. HEIDT & CO.,
Corner Congress and Whitaker streets,
f „,**••* J *
3 >,
Opposite Pulaski House.
BARBED WIRE
FEVCIAG.
WEED & CORNWELL,
aoeints.
GALVANIZED OB PAINTED
Hr# (Sotto.
11 i HI!
No Bettor Opportunity wasEvtr Offered
$25,000 PUTS DRESS ROODS
o
Given Away at Half Their Value!
2,000 yards Brocade Dress Goods, worth 40c. and 50c,
down to 18c.
2,500 yards Black and Colored Cashmeres, 36 inches wide,
worth 50c , down to 25c.
<r
1,000 yards Black Lace Striped Wool Bunting, worth 40c.,
down to 15c,
5,000 yards very desirable Alpacas down to 10c.
3,000 yards Lace Buntings, in all colors except black, worth
15c., down to 7 l-2c.
5,000 yards Scotch Dress Ginghams, choice patterns, down
to 10c.
5,000 yards Check Nainsook down to 8 l-2c.
IN ADDITION THERETO, AND MANY OTHER BARGAINS, WE OFFER:
V- V' -
150 pieces yard wide Fruit ot the Loom, Genuine Article, at
10c. by the piece. „
100 pieces Lonsdale Cambric (only the real article>at 12 l-2c.
by the yard.
500 yards 40-inch wide Victoria Lawn at 9c.
250 yards Lambrequin or Curtain Lace down to 6 l-4c.
WE ALSO CALL ATTENTION TO OUR IMMENSE STOCK OF
Laces, Embroideries and Parasols, and Moira Saiius
AT $1 AND $1 25 PER YARD.
DAVID WEISBEIN & CO.
TOUiarr# auM Cartels ©oofls.
Embroideries, Laces.
Plat M’s Net Variety Store,
FAMOUS FOR HAVING THE LARGEST, MOST COMPLETE AND CHEAPEST STOCK OF
EMBROIDERIES! LACES!
IN SAVANNAH.
HOSIERY, GLOVES.
AN ENDLEBS VARIETY OF
FLOWERS! PLUMES!
TRY
Platshek’s Reinforced Unlaundried Shirt!
IT IS THE BEST AND CHEAPEST IN THE MARKET, AND ONLY 85 CENTS EACH.
5500t$ ana £ftaes.
NEW ADDITIONS BY EVERY STEAMER
ENABLES US TO DISPLAY THE LARGEST. MOST ELEGANT AND
Best Stock of Shoes ii Savannah.
We invite an examination of our assortment of Ladies’ and Misses’ Fine OPERA SLIP
PERS. in all widths and sizes, and particularly desire to call attention to our Ladies’ HAND
SEWED, thin sole, low button SHOES. These are elegant goods and well adapted to this
climate for Spring and Summer wear. We expect by next steamer
Another Lot of Burt’s Fine Shoes!
Also, a full supply of ZEIGLER BROS.’ work. We hare exclusive sale in Savannah of L.
DIOKERMAN & CO.’s make of
GENTS’ FINE HAND-SEWED SHOES
So long and favorably known in this market, aid shall open on WEDNESDAY MORNING the
first shipment of these goods.
■SARATOGA TRUNKS, SARATOGA TRUNKS
In great variety. Also, fine SATCHELS for Ladies and Gents now open.
JOS. ROSENHEIM & CO.,
l4l Congress Street.
HJatfSws, ifwelr#, He.
A. L. DESBOUILLONS,
JEWELER AND DEALER IN
Waltham and Elgin Watches,
FINE GOLD JEWELRY, DIAMONDS,
AGENT FOR THE PIONEER WATCH.
STERLING SILVERWARE. TRIPLE-PLATED WARE.
FRENCH AND AMERICAN GOLD-HEADED CANES.
BTAR BPECTACLEB, OPERA MANUFACTURER OF FLORIDA
GLASSES. jewelry,
21 It ILL STREET, OPPOSITK SCREVES HOUSE.
fawg.
CAWS’ Cu rtis & Cos.
'Abp W t.j ■ 811 to 819 North Second Street, St. Loyi^Bfc
Maaofutunn of every description of Circular, Jlill, and Cross-Cut Sawst Whoieeala BmIMII
gakker aad Leather Belting, Piles, Mandrels, Cast Floohs, Saw Glimmers* OMHMBi
,n (• and Planing Mill Supplies; Solo Manufacturers of Lockwood's PMMI MM
qualm Haw. EVERY MAW VV RANTED. MS-Careful attention to repair st. ******
TAIMITE EMERY WHEELS
Qa, New Illustrated Catalogue mailed free on eppMeafitML
Wautrl 4
WANTED.-A young
trust
IIiSSSSS
W ANTED a good cook and a'b^TT'"
’ " eral housework A nn i„ J Yor
CENTRAL GARDEN. ’ PPy at GIU.Nd
to
TV Tv bee. Apply at 99 Bav strm. k ' < fc-
ANTED, estimates for puttingbib-n
* ▼ under and repairing m* krv, Pill Art
Right reserved to St any or anb?d“™*>’
J - H ESTILL
IdaSLTc: SSo*
WANTED, a few permanent mvi "*
boarders. pleasant south table
Broughton street Uth rooms ' at 198
lllzr* required - Ap P’-'- * South Broad
*2 announce to the mu-ie
Tv that a first-class Piano ns,!!„!. C PbhUe
Pa. irer Is attached to our Musioal\w P a T '^ 1 R? '
All orders will be promptlv
lowest rates, by SCHREINfruj ,h *
HOUSE. * " ttt,NERB Ml'sic
WANTED, our former patrons and the nnk
Bon Ton Ferrotype Gallery. J. N tfrrim?
assay ßuil
W" a",
is now connected with Telephone ExeW. 8
All orders by same will me* prompt attend
SMITH BROS.. PronHemt.
■WANTED, a first-lass feeder for altol
T T three revolution printing press „
sober, steady and competent feeder a’perm,®
nent situation at 812 per week No o“her „'t
apply. Address MORNING NEWS OFFICE^
-for %m,
FOR RENT, a residence on Jones streeMw
and one-half stories on basement
* ar .f r conveniences. Possession will he ei Te & J
on first of May, C. h, DORSETT
FOR RENT, two suites of most des'r&bl*
A] , offlccf on Brvan street. Apply to F F
NEUFVILLE, Real Estate and Insura'n, ’
Agent, 2 Commercial Building. a L
Sot f nit.
OR BALE.—Fresh STRAWBERRIES allow
est prices for sale at GARDNER’S 30U
Bull street. ’ *
TT'OR SALE.—
T BLONK’S
LADIES’ AND GENTB’ SALOON
OPEN
FOR ICECREAM.
FOR SALE, Lightwood and Cypress Post*
eight to fifteen feet long, in yard on canal
foot Bryan street. R COAKLEY.
TT'OR SALE, a six-horse Engine and Boiler It
I is almost new and in first-class order
ready for service. J. H. EBTILL, 3 Whitaker ,
street, Savannah. 1
TT'OR SALE, 80 Lots at a bargain, on East
A Broad and near Anderson street. Ad
ply to IL B. REPPARD, No. 70 Bay street.
fin nun SAVANNAH RIVER CYPRESS
DU,U'U SHINGLES for sale cheap on
steamer “Alice Clark’s” wharf, foot ot Aber
com street.
OTS, BUILDING LOTS.-A few choice
Building Lots for sale, south of Anderson
street, three minutes’ walk from Bernard
Btreet Railroad, by 8. F. KUNE.
” £ost.
LOsrr. on Tuesday evening, on Bull street,
b ctwern state and Liberty, a Silver Snake
racelet FtMer will be rewarded by leaving
at this office. 8
£uuni.
CLAM CHOWDER, Boston style, Ovgnjw
PrE. Family style, for Lunch to-day
THE OFFICE, 113 Bay street, next to CeWE
Railroad Bank. T. M. R| f.
4jrntstiim ftoodg.
I* a FAR,
HITTER AND FURNISHER.
Gift Advertisement!
Every purchaser of $2 50 cash will receive i
ticket entitling him to an opportunity to get
one of nine cash presents amounting to
Fifty Dollars!
We have now in store the new styles in
MACKINAW HATS.
NEW SPRING HATS, Silk.
THE NEWEST SPRING SCARFS.
THE “JESTHETIC” COLLAR.
NEW OUFFB.
WHITE and FANCY VESTB.
VEST BUTTONS, TOILET SOAPS.
BAY RUM and COLOGNE.
BILK UMBRELLAS,
Ksh and French HALF HOSE.
HALF HOSE.
SILK HANDKERCHIEFS and SCARFS.
Lisle Thread SHIRTS and DRAWERS.
Nainsook and Gauze UNDERWEAR, and
MEN’S FINE GOODS GENERALLY, at
LaFar’s,
23 BULL STREET. *
ffgfla %Tatir.
SUPERIOR ICE COLD
SODA‘WATER!
With elegant Fruit Syrups of our own manu
facture. Try the
EGG NOG SYRUP!
MINERAL WATER from Saratoga Springs on
draught, drawn from
The Mammoth Fountain.
▲ large stock of BOTTLED WATERS always
in store.
KENTUCKY BLUE LICK WATER
By the Glass, Bottle and Keg.
G. M. HEIDT £ CO.’S Drug Store,
Corner Congress and Whitaker streets
Cold, Colder, Coldest.
WHAT?
SODA WATER!
With the choicest
Fruit Syrups*
BUTLER’S DRUG EMPORIUM.
jftaMmr#,
j. w. tynaKT
Engineer and Machinist?
SAVANNAH, GA.
Machine, Boiler and Smith Shop B
COR. WEST BROAD AND INDIAN BTB.
All kinds of Machinery, Bollera, etc., made
and repaired. Steam Pumps, Governors,
lectors, and Steam and Water Fittings of
kinds for sale -
#oaiJ, &c.
o. cT^
Blue Mottled Boap -25 certsabar
SehUitz Powders -40 cents a bo*
Effect Ginger.... 40 cents a both*
ToUetPowder 40 cents a pound
Florida Water - cents a bottle
Shoe Polish 1® cents a botu
Pure Cooking Soda ....10 cents a pou
KEROSENE 13 cents a gallon, 2 for Mc
All kinds DRUGS, MEDICINES, TOILET ana
FANCY ARTICLES low.
Jolmson tto Oo-
Corner Broughton and Habersham^^
~
A. F. ADAMS’
LAW OFFICE
BEMOYEB TO 118 BRYAN STREET
PUBSE’S NEW BUILDING.